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Swedish police red-faced after 'nation's most dangerous serial killer'
revealed as a compulsive liar who made up confessions to 30 murders (Daily Mail)
revealed as a compulsive liar who made up confessions to 30 murders (Daily Mail)
lengthy story, with pictures, at DM link aboveSwedish police have come under fire after revelations that the nation’s most dangerous serial killer is a compulsive liar who made up confessions to 30 murders (and) have been left red-faced after a book about notorious serial killer Thomas Quick claims he simply made up his confessions and police took his word.
Quick was jailed in 1990 for armed robbery and during his compulsory psychotherapy sessions he confessed to murders in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland. He has been convicted of eight murders between 1976 and 1885 and confessed to another 25.
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Investigative journalist and author Hannes Råstam claims that Quick, 62, collected details about unsolved murders across Scandinavia from a Stockholm library while on day release and began confessing to crimes.
With his research Quick was able to describe details such as murder weapons, details about victims’ clothes and their appearance. According to Råstam, the police who were eager to close the unsolved murder files took his confessions as fact.
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